Jacqueline was Wilson's second wife, before Valerie, who is his third (the first was Susan Otchis). During the tail end of their marriage Jacqueline was a registered foreign lobbyist for the Presidency of Gabon, where Wilson had a good relationship with President Omar Bongo. The
Vanity Fair article mentions Wilson and Plame were renting an apartment in the Watergate before moving into their Palisades home, which is the 4612 Charleston adress. Records filed with the DOJ to comply with the Foreign Agents Registration Act list Jacqueline living at 6104 Bryn Mawr Avenue, Glen Echo, MD 20812 as of June 17, 1998 and 6120 Shady Oak Lane, Bethesda, MD 20817 in 2002. Now there was a period from 1997 to 1998 when Wilson was still married to Jacqueline but seeing Valerie, which may explain why Jacqueline is also listed at that address: apparently Jacqueline was living there while Wilson had moved in with Valerie. However, here's what's odd about that: a
Washington Post article from October 8, 1998 lists this among home sales recorded recently by the District Department of Finance and Revenue, Recorder of Deeds Division, and supplied to the
Post by the real estate information service First American Real Estate Solutions (formerly Experian):
"CHARLESTON TER., 4612-Barry Zuckerman Properties to Joseph C. IV and Valerie E. Wilson, $735,000."
So the house was bought in Wilson and Valerie's name, but Jacqueline was living there?
BTW, Jacqueline's 1998 foreign lobbyist registration form mentions this:
$100,000.00 received prior to registration on June 17, 1998
Maybe that's part of how Wilson augmented his income to pay for the home--in which case, though, it seems odd he and Valerie ended up with the home instead of Jacqueline.